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As poet laureate, prize-winning biographer and founder of Poetry Archive, Andrew Motion has been at the centre of British poetry for over fifty years. But for much longer than this, Andrew has been a reader of poetry, albeit one lucky enough to rub shoulders with many of his idols and heroes.

From an extraordinary poetic career and including new and previously uncollected poems, this selection draws together work that in a variety of ways offers intimate reflections on memory and the cost of human experience.

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Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration and current British and American politics.

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An expansive new poetry collection, direct in its emotional appeal and ambitious in its scope.

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A verse memoir from the former poet laureate giving tragic resonance to the subjects and the personal losses that have haunted Motion across his writing life, combining Tennysonian melancholy with the narrative momentum of a novel.

Newly jacketed reissue of Motion's award-winning biography of this high-achieving yet tragically self-destructive family.

First published in 1997, Keats was the first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. Most importantly, Andrew Motion - himself a distinguished poet and former poet laureate - demonstrates how the poems continue to exert their power.

Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplary 'Life' of him.' Peter Conrad, Observer'Honest but not prurient, critical but also compassionate, Motion's book could not be bettered.' Alan Bennett, London Review of Books

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The Pleasure Steamers" is Andrew Motion's first collection of poems. Formally adventurous, in the way his work has continued to be, the collection explores relationships, geographies and the legacy of the past to the present.

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The literary essays in Ways of Life look at a wide assortment of writers, from John Clare and Ivor Gurney, to marginal figures such as Leigh Hunt and Joseph Severn, and reassess the less well-known work of celebrated writers including John Donne, Christina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy.

From England’s former poet laureate, a collection of selected poetry spanning his celebrated careerAndrew Motion has said, “I want my writing to be as clear as water. I want readers to see all the way through its surfaces into the swamp.” Though the territory of his exploration may be murky and mired—the front lines of war, political entanglements, romantic longing, and human suffering—Motion’s conversational tone and lyrical style make for cl...

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Juli 1802: Am Nordufer der Themse, unweit von London, liegt das Hispaniola, ein Wirtshaus, das von Jim Hawkins und seinem Sohn geführt wird. Jim junior unternimmt oft einsame Streifzüge durch die nebelverhangene Marschlandschaft, ansonsten muss er nach der Pfeife seines Vaters tanzen und im Schankraum der Kneipe den immergleichen Geschichten lauschen: von Abenteuern auf hoher See, von Mord, Rache, vergrabenen Schätzen - und von einem Mann mit ...